Archives for May 2014

I’m still thinking French with my recipes for the blog just now. While my recent trip is still fresh in my mind I want to get creative in the kitchen with French themed ideas and recipes. Things that will bring to mind the sunshine, friendliness and beauty of my favourite country. Aioli (or alioli depending…

I have been home from France for just over a week now and although I have blogged a French inspired recipe (Pretty Pickled Radishes) I have been feeling a bit bereft at not sharing some of my snapshots as I used to do on my blog. The blog has become all food and no chat…

I’m back from my wonderful week in France feeling refreshed and just a tad sad to be back in the land of wind and rain and a definite shortage on the rose front! We were blessed by good weather and enough sunshine to break out the shorts and sit by the pool soaking up the…

While I am over here in France enjoying sunshine, rose wine, catching up with friends and sampling the local cuisine, I thought I’d share one of my all time favourite preserve recipes and something that I always think of as quintessentially French, my apricot and lavender jam. Apricots to me are summer sunshine, the fresh…

I’m off to France tomorrow, so excited. I’m looking forward to catching up with my friends and hopefully enjoying some sunshine to go with the wine, good chat, lots of eating and a bit of brocanting too I hope. Before I go I thought it would be nice to give you a recipe with a…